Headphoneus Supremus

11kHz is by no means crazy. I listen to music that has drums in it, and that 11kHz can get a little fatiguing with cymbals and even has a notable impact on the snap of a snare........

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I can hear a sustained 11hz sine waves but at my age I'd be pretty well pressed to hear any actual musically produced harmonic overtones around that frequency range, back in the early 70s when I started in recording and producing electro-acoustic music yes..... but then our analogue tape machines masked it with tape hiss. ......lol......

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I would never buy from someone with 87.5% feedback. Not liking the low transaction count either; or where the seller lives, tho that is a pretty wide and illegitimate social profiling net if I do say so myself. Lol. Still, all other things added in, the demographics matters a bit more.

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They look fairly used, if they are real. Can't say only from those photos, need closer photos to be sure, and need photos of the IEM body / connectors. but the state of the Y split looks like they were used outside a bit.

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They look fairly used, if they are real. Can't say only from those photos, need closer photos to be sure, and need photos of the IEM body / connectors. but the state of the Y split looks like they were used outside a bit.

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Always hard to tell unless you know what your looking for...but both look legit IMHO...
But as Death_Block point out the case does look a bit too shiny and spongy : ) but the ear pieces themselves look properly etched.

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After playing around with the IE800 for a couple of months, I discovered two pretty different ways of wearing them:

1) With a fairly deep insertion using smaller tips (the IEMs need to be angled up, into the ear canal).
2) With a shallow insertion using larger tips. In this case the IEMs sit pretty much just on the outside of the ear canal.

Both provide a reasonable seal.

I think 1) is wrong and/or not what the designer intended(?). I've had some private communications with other IE800 owners which suggest that the dual-chamber attenuators won't work properly in this situation. Anybody else using smaller tips and relatively deep insertion, or is this strictly forbidden for IE800 owners?

In case 1), the resonant treble peak is pushed to a slightly higher frequency (a good thing), but the sub- and mid-bass become a bit overwhelming (not a good thing).

In case 2), the bass is better controlled but I find the treble a bit too bright for my ears

They are great IEMs, and I'm not here to bash them. But I can't find any way of wearing them in which they sound superior to my (much less expensive) FLC 8S.